document_title: Monsters University

question_text: who plays the voice of sully in monsters inc

text: Monsters University

text: Plot[edit]

text: Michael "Mike" Wazowski, a young 7-year-old monster, aspires to become a scarer (a monster who enters the human world at night to scare children and harvest their screams for energy) when he grows up after visiting Monsters Inc., Monstropolis' most profitable scaring company, on a school field trip. Eleven years later, Mike is a first-year scare major at Monsters University, where he meets fellow monster, James P. "Sulley" Sullivan. Mike studies hard, while the privileged Sulley, coming from a family of talented scarers, relies only on his natural ability and begins to falter. As the semester progresses, Mike and Sulley attempt to join a fraternity, but only Sulley is accepted into Roar Omega Roar, the strongest fraternity on campus. At the semester's final exam, a fight between the two causes them to accidentally break Dean Abigail Hardscrabble's cherished Scream Can. Hardscrabble fails both of them immediately, stating that Sulley does not study enough, and Mike is not scary enough.

text: Wanting to prove himself, Mike enters the university's "Scare Games", and makes a wager with Hardscrabble to reinstate him and his team to the scare program if they win, but Mike must leave the university if they lose. He joins a group of misfits named Oozma Kappa, the weakest fraternity on campus, but they are denied entry to the Games for being one team member short. Sulley subsequently joins them, seeing the competition as his ticket back into the scare program. Oozma Kappa finish last in the first challenge, but are saved from elimination after another team is disqualified for cheating. Oozma Kappa improve gradually due to Mike's training, intricate knowledge of scaring, and they advance through each following challenge, finishing just behind competition favorites, Roar Omega Roar. In the final round, they defeat Roar Omega Roar with a decisive final scare by Mike in the simulation bedroom. However, Mike soon discovers that he only won because Sulley changed the machine's difficulty to the easiest setting.

text: Determined to prove that he can become a scarer, Mike breaks into the school's door lab and enters a door to the human world that leads to a summer camp, but he is unable to scare a cabin full of children, and runs off into the woods. Meanwhile, Roar Omega Roar offers to reinstate Sulley, but he refuses, instead confessing to Hardscrabble that he cheated, just as she is alerted to Mike's break-in. Realizing what happened, Sulley defies Hardscrabble, and enters the same door to find Mike. After reconciling, they try to return, but are unable to exit after Hardscrabble deactivates the door while waiting for the authorities to arrive. Pursued by camp rangers, Mike realizes that the only way to escape is to generate enough scream energy to power the door from their side. Working together, Sulley and Mike terrify the camp rangers and generate an overwhelming amount of scream energy to return to the lab seconds before the device overloads and explodes in front of Hardscrabble.

text: Mike and Sulley are led away by the CDA, and are expelled from the university as a result of their actions, but the other members of Oozma Kappa are accepted into the scare program the next semester, as Hardscrabble was impressed by their performances in the scare games. As Mike leaves on the bus, Sulley runs after him to raise his spirits. Hardscrabble then appears and wishes the two luck, claiming they were the first students to have surprised her. The two take jobs in the mail room of Monsters, Inc., eventually working their way up to join the Scarer Team and setting the events of Monsters, Inc. in motion.

text: Cast[edit]

text:
Billy Crystal as Michael "Mike" Wazowski

Noah Johnston as Young Mike[7]

John Goodman as James P. "Sulley" Sullivan[14][15]
Steve Buscemi as Randall "Randy" Boggs[16]
Helen Mirren as Dean Abigail Hardscrabble, the chair of the Scarer program at Monsters University[17]
Peter Sohn as Scott "Squishy" Squibbles, an Oozma Kappa fraternity member[16][18]
Joel Murray as Don Carlton, a middle-aged returning student and the founding member of Oozma Kappa fraternity[16][19]
Sean Hayes as Terri Perry, an Oozma Kappa fraternity member who shares his brother's body[18][20]
Dave Foley as Terry Perry, an Oozma Kappa fraternity member[16][18][20]
Charlie Day as Art, an Oozma Kappa fraternity member[18]
Alfred Molina as Professor Derek Knight[21]
Tyler Labine as Brock Pearson, Greek Council vice-president[22]
Nathan Fillion as Johnny J. Worthington III, president of Roar Omega Roar[22]
Aubrey Plaza as Claire Wheeler, Greek Council president[22]
Bobby Moynihan as Chet Alexander, a Roar Omega Roar fraternity member[22]
Julia Sweeney as Sherri Squibbles, Scott's mother[16][22]
Bonnie Hunt as Ms. Karen Graves, Mike's 2nd grade school teacher[22]
John Krasinski as "Frightening" Frank McCay[22]
Bill Hader as Referee, a slug[23]
Beth Behrs as Carrie Williams, leader of Python Nu Kappa sorority[22]
Bob Peterson as Roz[23]
John Ratzenberger as The Yeti, a Monsters, Inc. mailroom employee[22][24]

text: Production[edit]

text: Plans for a second Monsters, Inc. film existed since 2005. Following disagreements between Disney CEO Michael Eisner and Pixar CEO Steve Jobs, Disney—which owned the rights to make sequels to all of Pixar's films up to Cars—announced that a sequel to Monsters, Inc. would be made by Circle 7 Animation, which was also working on early drafts of Toy Story 3 & Finding Nemo 2.[8] Titled Monsters, Inc. 2: Lost in Scaradise, the film would have focused on Mike and Sulley visiting the human world to give Boo a birthday present, only to find that she had moved. After getting trapped in the human world, Mike and Sulley split up after disagreeing on what to do.[25] Screenwriters Rob Muir and Bob Hilgenberg were hired to write a script for the film, and storyboarded an early draft of it.[9] Disney's change of management in late 2005—in which Eisner was replaced by Bob Iger—led to renewed negotiations with Pixar, and in early 2006 Disney announced it had purchased the studio. The Disney-owned sequel rights were then transferred to Pixar, leading to the cancellation of Muir and Hilgenberg's version of the film and the subsequent closure of Circle 7.[9]

text: A Pixar-made sequel was confirmed in 2010.[6] The film was originally planned for release on November 16, 2012, but the release was moved up to November 2, 2012 to avoid competition with The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2. On March 29, 2011, it was confirmed that the film would be a prequel and the title Monsters University was announced.[10] On April 4, 2011, it was confirmed that the film will be released on June 21, 2013.[26]

text: The feature was directed by Dan Scanlon and produced by Kori Rae.[28][29] Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Bob Peterson, and John Ratzenberger reprised their roles, and Bonnie Hunt voiced a new character. New voice cast included Dave Foley, Sean Hayes, Julia Sweeney, Helen Mirren, Alfred Molina, Peter Sohn, Charlie Day, Joel Murray, Nathan Fillion, Aubrey Plaza, Tyler Labine, John Kransinski, Bill Hader, Bobby Moynihan, and Beth Behrs.[30]

text: The plot of Monsters University details Mike and Sulley's first meeting, but this created a continuity error from the first film in which Mike tells Sulley "You've been jealous of my good looks since the fourth grade." Director Dan Scanlon said he had a dilemma with this line during pre-production, but he believed it was best if Mike and Sulley meet in college because, "we wanted to see their relationship develop when they were adults. And we also felt like college is so much about self-discovery and figuring out who you are." He added, "It felt like the perfect place to do this, but we had that line. So we tried versions where they met young and then we skipped ahead to college. And we knew we didn't want to make Monsters Elementary." Scanlon said during pre-production that, "Pete Docter, the original director, and John Lasseter ... finally said to me, 'it's great that you're honoring that, but you have to do what's right for the story.' So we made a tough decision to just have them be in college and put that line aside." Scanlon later retconned the line from the first film as "an old monster expression", saying that "it's what monsters always say to each other."[31][32]

text: Monsters University is the first Pixar film that used global illumination, a new lighting system introduced as part of the overhaul of the rendering system used since the first Toy Story film. In the planning stage of the film, director of photography, Jean-Claude Kalache, asked "What if we made these lights just work?" Before the new system, artists had to build reflections and shadows manually, which became increasingly complex as the models and the setups became more technologically advanced. The new lighting system uses path tracing, a technique that imitates the behaviour of the light in the real world; this automatized the process, delivered more realism, produced soft shadows, and let the artist spend more time on models and complex scenes – some of which contained thousands of light sources.[33][34]

text: For research, the filmmakers visited several colleges in the U.S., including Harvard University, Stanford University, and the University of Alabama, observing college architecture, student life, Greek organizations, and the teaching methods of professors and faculty.[35][36][37] To research fraternity life, which is central to the film, many of the film's producers spent several weeks at a fraternity house.[36]

text: Soundtrack[edit]

text:
Monsters University

Soundtrack album by Randy Newman

Released
June 18, 2013

Recorded
2012-2013

Genre
Score

Length
55:11

Label
Walt Disney

Pixar film soundtrack chronology

Brave
(2012)Brave2012
Monsters University
(2013)
Inside Out
(2015)Inside Out2015

Randy Newman chronology

Toy Story 3
(2010) Toy Story 32010
Monsters University
(2013) Monsters University2013
Cars 3
(2017) Cars 32017

text: The music for the film is Randy Newman's seventh collaboration with Pixar as composer. Walt Disney Records released the soundtrack on June 18, 2013.[38][39]

text: The songs "Main Title", "Rise and Shine", and "The Scare Games" feature the drum line from the Blue Devils group "BD Entertainment". The recordings for the percussion tracks were done at Skywalker Ranch,[40] and were written by Blue Devils Percussion Caption Head Scott Johnson.[41]

text: The songs "Island" by Mastodon and "Gospel" by MarchFourth Marching Band are featured during the film but do not appear on the soundtrack. The songs "Party Hard" by Andrew W.K. and "Kickstart My Heart" by Mötley Crüe are featured prominently in the teaser trailers but do not appear on the soundtrack or in the film.

text: All music composed by Randy Newman, except where noted.

text:
No.
Title
Length

1.
"Main Title"
0:52

2.
"Young Michael"
3:58

3.
"First Day at MU"
4:32

4.
"Dean Hardscrabble"
3:19

5.
"Sulley"
0:48

6.
"Scare Pig"
2:00

7.
"Wasted Potential"
1:16

8.
"Oozma Kappa"
3:16

9.
"Stinging Glow Urchin"
2:34

10.
"Field Trip"
3:57

11.
"Rise and Shine"
3:00

12.
"The Library"
3:44

13.
"Roar" (written and performed by Axwell & Sebastian Ingrosso)
2:55

14.
"The Scare Games"
6:00

15.
"Did You Do This?"
2:00

16.
"Human World"
2:07

17.
"The Big Scare"
3:02

18.
"Goodbyes"
3:11

19.
"Mike and Sulley"
1:12

20.
"Monsters University"
1:34

Total length:
55:15

text: Release[edit]

text: The first teaser trailer for Monsters University was released on June 20, 2012.[42] Four versions of the trailer exist; in his sleep, Mike mutters excuses to avoid attending class in each one, such as "I'm not wearing any clothes," "My homework ate my dog," "Class President?", and "My pony made the Dean's List." A second trailer was released on February 11, 2013, a third on April 26, 2013, and a fourth and final trailer, which included scenes from the film, was released on May 30, 2013.

text: On October 8, 2012, Pixar revealed a fully functional website for Monsters University, complete with information about admissions, academic and campus life, and a campus store to purchase MU apparel. On April 1, 2013, the website was styled to appear as though a rival college, Fear Tech, had hacked and vandalized it.[43][44] The first television commercial for the film was aired during the 2013 Rose Bowl Game, parodying advertisements for participating schools that are shown during college football telecasts. From June 27 until July 11, 2013, Disney's online game Club Penguin hosted a Monsters University Takeover event to promote the film. Players could dress up as their favorite monsters and take part in the Scare Games.[45]

text: The film had its worldwide premiere on June 5, 2013, as a special screening at BFI Southbank in London with the director and producer in attendance.[46] The film had its Asian premiere as the opening film of the 2013 Shanghai International Film Festival on June 15, 2013.[47] It premiered in the United States on June 8, 2013, at the Seattle International Film Festival,[47] and was released in theaters on June 21, 2013. The film's theatrical release was accompanied by Pixar's short film titled The Blue Umbrella.[11]

text: Home media[edit]

text: Monsters University was released by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment on Blu-ray, 3D Blu-ray, DVD, digital copy, and on demand on October 29, 2013. It was accompanied by The Blue Umbrella, Pixar's short film which played alongside the film in theaters.[48]

text: Reception[edit]

text: Box office[edit]

text: Monsters University earned $269.5 million in the United States and Canada and $475.7 million in other countries, for a worldwide total of $744.2 million. Calculating in all expenses, Deadline.com estimated that the film made a profit of $179.8 million.[49] It is the 56th-highest-grossing film of all time,[50] the 12th-highest-grossing animated film all time, the seventh-highest-grossing 2013 film,[5] and the third-highest-grossing Pixar film.[51] The film earned $136.9 million worldwide on its opening weekend.[52] Disney declined to provide a budget for the film; Entertainment Weekly speculated that it was higher than that of Brave ($185 million), mainly because of the high cost of John Goodman and Billy Crystal reprising their roles.[53] Shockya and EOnline reported the budget to be $200 million—on par with previous Pixar films.[3][4]

text: North America[edit]

text: In the week leading to Monsters University's release, Disney projected an opening-weekend gross of at least $70 million.[54] The film opened on Friday, June 21, 2013 in first place with $30.47 million—including $2.6 million in 20:00 Thursday night shows[55]—marking the fifth-largest opening day among animated films.[56] The film then reached first place with an opening-weekend gross of $82.43 million; the second-largest among Pixar films,[57] the second-largest among G-rated films,[58] the fourth-largest among prequels,[59] the fifth-largest among animated films,[60] and the fifth-largest among films released in June.[61] Monsters University remained at first place on its second weekend, declining 45% to $45.6 million.[62] Facing tough competition from Despicable Me 2 on its third weekend, it dropped 57% to $19.7 million.[63] As of December 2013, it is the tenth-highest-grossing animated film.[64]

text: Outside North America[edit]

text: The film earned $54.5 million in 35 markets on its opening weekend.[57] It set a Pixar opening-weekend record in Latin America with revenues of $31.7 million.[65] In Argentina, the film set an opening-weekend record among all films with $5.49 million.[66][67] In Australia, where it had a simultaneous release with Despicable Me 2, Monsters University debuted behind the latter with $3.56 million in third place.[68] In Hong Kong, the film set opening-day (HK$5.03 million),[69] single-day (HK$7.93 million) and opening-weekend (HK$25.79 million) records among animated films, beating the previous record holder, Toy Story 3.[70] In the UK, the film topped the box office during its opening weekend with a gross of GB£3.46 million.[71] The film's largest opening occurred in China, where its $13 million debut ranked fourth among Disney films.[72][73] The film's highest-grossing markets are Japan ($90.1 million), the UK, Ireland, and Malta ($47.2 million), and Mexico ($37.6 million).[73]

text: Critical response[edit]

text: Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 79% approval rating based on 190 reviews, with an average rating of 6.8/10. The site's critical consensus reads "Offering Monsters, Inc. fans a welcome return visit with beloved characters, Monsters University delivers funny and thoughtful family entertainment for viewers of any age."[74] Another review aggregator, Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 top reviews from mainstream critics, calculated a score of 65 based on 41 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[75] Audiences polled by Cinemascore gave the film a grade A. According to Disney, audiences were 56% female and 60% below the age of 25. Families made up 73% of business, and teens accounted for a solid 15%. The film played well with all ages.[53]

text: Matt Zoller Seitz of Chicago Sun-Times gave the film four stars out of four, saying it "is true to the spirit of [Monsters, Inc.] and matches its tone. But it never seems content to turn over old ground."[76] Trevor Johnston of Time Out gave the film four stars out of five, writing "It has enough of the right stuff to haunt the imagination long after the immediate buzz of its fluffy-furred cuteness has melted away. For a mere prequel, that's a result."[77] Steven Rea of The Philadelphia Inquirer gave the film three stars out of four and said it "is cute, and funny, and the animation, though not exactly inspired, is certainly colorful."[78] Jake Coyle of Associated Press gave the film three stars out of four, saying it "might not be as gifted as some of its other movies, but sometimes it's alright to be OK."[79] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the film three stars out of four, and said "It's all infectious fun, despite the lack of originality. In the art of tickling funny bones, Crystal and Goodman earn straight A's."[80] Richard Corliss of Time gave the film a positive review, saying "This minor film with major charms still deserves to have kids dragging their parents to the multiplex for one more peek at the monsters in the closet. With Pixar, familiarity breeds content."[81] Bill Goodykoontz of The Arizona Republic gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of five and said it is "one of those movies that has absolutely no reason to exist, but once you've seen it, you're kind of glad it does."[82] Alan Scherstuhl of The Village Voice gave the film a positive review, saying "Monsters University feels not like the work of artists eager to express something but like that of likable pros whose existence depends on getting a rise out the kids. It's like the scares Sully and Mike spring on those sleeping tykes: technically impressive but a job un-anchored to anything more meaningful."[83]

text: Leonard Maltin of IndieWire praised the animation and art direction, but wrote that he wished "the movie was funnier and wasn't so plot-heavy" and that "Pixar has raised the bar for animated features so high that when they turn out a film that's merely good, instead of great, they have only themselves to blame for causing critics to damn them with faint praise."[84] Michael Phillips of Chicago Tribune gave the film two stars out of four, saying "Monsters University, the weirdly charmless sequel to the animated 2001 Pixar hit Monsters, Inc., is no better or worse than the average (and I mean average) time-filling sequel cranked out by other animation houses."[85] Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a negative review, saying that it "never surprises, goes off in unexpected directions or throws you for a loop in the manner of the best Pixar stories. Nor does it come close to elating through the sheer imagination of its conceits and storytelling."[86] Claudia Puig of USA Today gave the film three stars out of four, and said it "may not be as inventive as Inc., but it's an amusing and amiable addition to Pixar's roster of animated coming-of-age stories."[87] Michael O'Sullivan of The Washington Post gave the film three stars out of four, saying "It may be children's terror that powers the movie's fictional universe, but it's the energy of its stars that lights up Monsters University."[88] Chris Nashawaty of Entertainment Weekly gave the film an A− and said it "is exactly the rebound Pixar needed after 2011's Cars 2 left some wondering if the studio had lost its magic. The delightful story of when Mike met Sulley puts those concerns to rest."[89] James Berardinelli of ReelViews gave the film three stars out of four and wrote "Although it falls short of the best Pixar has brought to the screen over its long association with Disney, it's nevertheless worth a trip to the theater, especially for kids."[90]

text: However, the film was not without its detractors. Richard Roeper gave the film a C+, saying "This is a safe, predictable, edge-free, nearly bland effort from a studio that rarely hedges its bets."[91] Stephen Whitty of Newark Star-Ledger gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four and said "The artwork is accomplished, and intricate. The G-rating is genuine, without any gross-out gags. And there's none of the usual winks to the adults with tired, pop-culture references."[92] Manohla Dargis of The New York Times gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of five and wrote "Both the originality and stirring emotional complexity of Monsters, Inc., with its exquisitely painful and touching parallels with the human world, are missing."[93] Ty Burr of The Boston Globe gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four, and said "This is not a bad movie, and to small children it will be a very good one, but it's closer to average than one would wish from the company that gave us Up, WALL-E, The Incredibles, and the Toy Story series."[94] Rene Rodriguez of Miami Herald gave the film two stars out of five and wrote that it "feels half-hearted and lazy, like they weren't even trying. At least show a little effort, guys."[95]

text: Accolades[edit]

text:
Awards

Award
Date of ceremony
Category
Recipients and nominees
Result

American Cinema Editors[96]
February 7, 2014
Best Edited Animated Feature Film
Greg Snyder
Nominated

Annie Awards[97][98]
February 1, 2014
Best Animated Feature

Animated Effects in an Animated Production

Character Animation in an Animated Feature Production
John Chun Chiu Lee

Character Design in an Animated Feature Production
Chris Sasaki

Music in an Animated Feature Production
Randy Newman

Production Design in an Animated Feature Production
Ricky Nierva, Robert Kondo, Daisuke "Dice" Tsutsumi

Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production
Billy Crystal (Mike Wazowski)

Writing in an Animated Feature Production
Daniel Gerson, Robert L. Baird, Dan Scanlon

Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production
Dean Kelly
Won

Editorial in an Animated Feature Production
Greg Snyder, Gregory Amundson, Steve Bloom

British Academy Film Awards[99]
February 16, 2014
Best Animated Film
Dan Scanlon
Nominated

Cinema Audio Society Awards[100][101]
February 22, 2014
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Motion Pictures – Animated
Doc Kane, Michael Semanick, Gary Summers, David Boucher, Corey Tyler

Critics' Choice Movie Award[102]
January 16, 2014
Best Animated Feature

Denver Film Critics Society
January 13, 2014
Best Animated Feature Film

Hollywood Film Awards[103]
October 21, 2013
Hollywood Animation Award

Won

International Cinephile Society[104]
February 23, 2014
Best Animated Film

Nominated

Kids' Choice Awards[105]
March 29, 2014
Favorite Animated Movie

Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie
Billy Crystal

Producers Guild of America Award[106]
January 19, 2014
Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures
Kori Rae

San Francisco Film Critics Circle[107]
December 15, 2013
Best Animated Feature

Satellite Awards[108]
February 23, 2014
Best Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed Media

Saturn Award
June 2014
Best Animated Film

Visual Effects Society Awards[109]
February 12, 2014
Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture
Kori Rae, Sanjay Bakshi, Jon Reisch, Scott Clark

Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature Motion Picture
Robert Kondo, Eric Andraos, Dale Ruffolo, Peter Sumanaseni (Campus)

Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association[110]
December 9, 2013
Best Animated Feature


document_title: Bass Pro Shops

question_text: where is the original bass pro shop located

root

text: Bass Pro Shops

text: History[edit]

text: The majority owner, John Morris, began his career in sporting goods with a fishing section in the back of a Brown Derby liquor store owned by his father, located in Springfield MO on the road to Table Rock Lake and Branson, Missouri. That small fishing department sold homemade bait and worms, proving popular enough that Bass Pro Shops was incorporated in 1971. These homemade baits were so popular that many people wanted the opportunity to buy these when they had returned home. Thus began the Bass Pro Shops catalog, first mailed in 1974. Soon, it became the world's largest mail order sporting goods store.

tag: p

text: In 1975, to meet the burgeoning demand for Bass Pro Shops exclusive products, American Rod and Gun was established. Acting as a separate wholesaling entity ARG serves more than 7,000 independently owned retail stores worldwide. In 1977, Bass Pro Shops introduced the first fish-ready complete boat motor and trailer package with the Bass Tracker. In 1984, construction began on the Outdoor World Catalog Showroom in Springfield, Missouri. Big Cedar Lodge opened in 1988 on Table Rock Lake.

text: In 1995, Bass Pro Shops Sportsman's Warehouse opened in Atlanta, Georgia, its first store outside the state of Missouri. In November 2001, taking advantage of Outdoor World's popularity as a tourist destination, the Wonders of Wildlife museum was opened next door to the store in Springfield.[2][3] The Wonders of Wildlife Museum & Aquarium closed for renovation in 2007. As of October 2016 it is still closed with an expected reopening by the end of the year. Bass Pro Shops has announced that the grand reopening of the Wonders of Wildlife museum will take place on September 21st, 2017. [4]

text: In 2015, Bass Pro Shops opened a store inside the Memphis Pyramid, a former sports arena and concert venue in Memphis, Tennessee. In addition to the retail store itself, the building houses two restaurants, a bowling alley, a 100-room hotel, an observation deck, and the tallest free-standing elevator in America. At 535,000 sq ft, The Pyramid is Bass Pro's largest store.

text: In October 2016, Bass Pro Shops announced that they had reached a deal to acquire competitor Cabela's for $5.5 billion. The deal is being financed via preferred equity financing from Goldman Sachs and Pamplona. Goldman Sachs will contribute $1.8 billion towards financing and Pamplona will contribute the remainder for a total commitment of $2.4 billion.[13] The new entity is expected to be formed and in operation in Q1 or Q2 of 2017.[5] The new entity will keep Cabela’s base in Sidney and Lincoln, Nebraska. Morris will continue as CEO of the new entity. He will also be the majority shareholder of the new privately held entity. Tommy Milner stressed that the company had reviewed a range of options that would maximize value, with the board choosing to go the route of Bass Pro Shops.

text: House brands[edit]

text: Bass Pro Shops carries a number of house brands. Among these are:

text: Tracker Marine Group[edit]

text: For the article on the company, see Tracker Marine Group.

text: In 1978, Bass Pro Shops introduced the Bass Tracker boat, produced by the Tracker Marine Group. Its brands include Tracker Boats, Nitro, Sun Tracker, Tahoe, Fisher, ProCraft, Kenner, Mako Myacht and SeaCraft. These boats are sold in showrooms attached to every Bass Pro Shops store, in stand alone Tracker dealerships, and to independent marine dealers throughout the United States. All Tracker Marine Group boats are manufactured in multiple plants in southern Missouri. Over 400,000 people have purchased Tracker boats since 1978.[2]

text: Retail stores[edit]

text: Bass Pro Shops has 94 existing stores in the United States and Canada. The store sizes range from 20,000 square feet (1,900 m2) up to 535,000 square feet (49,700 m2). The largest flagship stores are known as Outdoor World stores. The decor of the stores includes taxidermy mounts native to the local area. All stores have an indoor water feature that showcases fish species that are indigenous to the area. The fish in their tanks are game fish of great size. In some of these aquariums, professional anglers and store pro-staff hold demonstrations showing the use of an artificial bait. They catch the fish in these tanks to show how well the bait works. Bass Pro Shops is also known for its Outdoor Skills Workshops, teaching skills as varied as fly fishing, Dutch oven cooking, archery hunting with an archery range in the store, and GPS navigation. They hold many skills workshops with the top names in the outdoor world.[2]

text: The Rancho Cucamonga, California Outdoor World store is used for the exterior shots of the fictional "Outdoor Man" store in the ABC sitcom Last Man Standing, starring Tim Allen, that premiered in 2011. Camera crews have also visited the store several times to film interior shots.[6]

text: Outdoor World locations[edit]

text:
State/Province
City
Size
Year Opened

Alabama
Leeds
150,000 sq ft[7]
2008[8]

Alabama
Prattville
140,000 sq ft[9]
2007[10]

Alabama
Spanish Fort
140,000 sq ft[11]
2008[12]

Alaska
Anchorage
80,000 sq ft[13]
2014

Alberta
Calgary/Rocky View
150,000 sq ft[14]
2009

Arizona
Mesa
170,000 sq ft[15]
2006[16]

Arkansas
Little Rock
120,000 sq ft[17]
2013

British Columbia
Vancouver/Tsawwassen
145,000 sq ft[18]
2016[19]

California
Manteca
120,000 sq ft[20]
2008[16]

California
Rancho Cucamonga
180,000 sq ft[21]
2007

California
Rocklin
100,000 sq ft[22]
2015

California
San Jose
145,000 sq ft[23]
2015

Colorado
Colorado Springs
117,000 sq ft[24]
2013

Colorado
Denver
186,000 sq ft[25]
2005

Connecticut
Bridgeport
150,000 sq ft[26]
2015

Florida
Brandon/Tampa
183,000 sq ft[27]
2015

Florida
Dania Beach
160,000 sq ft[28]
1998

Florida
Ft. Myers
130,000 sq ft[29]
2005

Florida
Orlando
150,000 sq ft[30]
2000

Georgia
Lawrenceville
130,000 sq ft
2001

Georgia
Savannah
103,000 sq ft
2003

Illinois
Bolingbrook
140,000 sq ft[31]
2013

Illinois
East Peoria
150,000 sq ft
2011

Illinois
Gurnee
133,000 sq ft[32]
1997

Indiana
Portage
135,000 sq ft[33]
2007

Indiana
Clarksville
280,000 sq ft[34]
2005

Iowa
Altoona
145,000 sq ft[35]
2009

Iowa
Council Bluffs
130,000 sq ft[36]
2005

Kansas
Olathe
135,000 sq ft[37]
2007

Louisiana
Bossier City
106,000 sq ft[38]
2003

Louisiana
Denham Springs
163,000 sq ft[39]
2008[16]

Maryland
Hanover
130,000 sq ft[40]
2001

Massachusetts
Foxborough
140,000 sq ft[41]
2007

Michigan
Auburn Hills
130,000 sq ft[42]
1998

Mississippi
Pearl
130,000 sq ft[43]
2005[43]

Missouri
Independence
180,000 sq ft[44]
2008[16]

Missouri
Springfield
500,000 sq ft
1981[45]

North Carolina
Concord
106,000 sq ft[46]
1999

Nevada
Las Vegas
165,000 sq ft[47]
2004[48]

New Brunswick
Dieppe
95,000 sq ft[49]
2015

New Hampshire
Hooksett
149,000 sq ft[50]
2014

Ohio
Rossford
150,000 sq ft[51]
2008[16]

Oklahoma
Broken Arrow
130,000 sq ft[52]
2005[16]

Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
110,000 sq ft[52]
2003[16]

Ontario
Vaughan
131,184 sq ft
2004[53]

Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
165,000 sq ft[54]
2004[16]

South Carolina
Myrtle Beach
105,000 sq ft[55]
2003[56]

Tennessee
Bristol
120,000 sq ft
2014

Tennessee
Memphis (at the Pyramid)
535,000 sq ft[57]
2015

Tennessee
Nashville
150,000 sq ft[58]
2001[59]

Tennessee
Sevierville
130,000 sq ft[60]
2005

Texas
Garland
120,000 sq ft[61]
2006[16]

Texas
Grapevine
200,000 sq ft[62]
1999

Texas
Katy
138,000 sq ft[63]
1999

Texas
Pearland
150,000 sq ft[64]
2007

Texas
Round Rock
104,000 sq ft
2015

Texas
San Antonio
200,000 sq ft[65]
2006

Texas
Harlingen
145,000 sq ft[66]
2011[67]

Virginia
Hampton
105,000 sq ft[68]
2003[68]

Virginia
Richmond (Hanover County)
150,000 sq ft[69]
2008[16]

Washington
Tacoma
170,000 sq ft[70]
2014[71]

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text: Other locations[edit]

text: Bass Pro Shops have several other stores that do not fall under the Outdoor World flagship brand.

text:
State
City
Store Name
Size
Year Opened

Florida
Daytona Beach
Outpost
67,068 sq ft[72]
2017

Florida
Destin
World Wide Sportsman
50,000 sq ft[73]
2003[74]

Florida
Gainesville
Sportsman Center
81,783 sq ft[75]
2017

Florida
Islamorada
World Wide Sportsman
27,000 sq ft
1995

Florida
Palm Bay
Stick Marsh Outpost[76]
112,000 sq ft
2013

Florida
Port St. Lucie
Sportsman's Center[77]
100,000 sq ft
2013

Florida
Miami
Sportsman Center
100,000 sq ft
2007

Florida
Tallahassee
Outpost
70,000 sq ft[78]
2013

Georgia
Macon
Sportsman's Warehouse
120,000 sq ft
2006

Missouri
Branson
White River Outpost
42,000 sq ft
2006[79]

Missouri
Columbia
Sportsman's Center
82,000 sq ft[80]
2005[81]

Missouri
Saint Charles
Sportsman's Warehouse
88,500 sq ft[82]
2001

Missouri
Springfield
Outlet
20,000 sq ft[83]
2015

New Jersey
Atlantic City
Outpost
85,000 sq ft[84]
2015

New York
Auburn
Sportsman's Center
85,000 sq ft[85]
2004

New York
Utica
Outpost
65,000 sq ft[86]
2013

North Carolina
Cary
Sportsman's Center
105,000 sq ft[87]
2013

Ontario
Niagara-on-the-Lake
Outpost
81,000 sq ft
2014

Tennessee
Memphis
Sportsman's Warehouse
84,000 sq ft[88]
2002

Tennessee
Chattanooga
Outpost
85,000 sq ft[89]
2016

text: Upcoming locations[edit]

text: Prior to the Cabela's acquisition, Bass Pro Shops had several stores under construction. Since then, plans have been put on hold and records removed from their website.

text:
State
City
Size
Year Opening

Florida
St. John's County
104,000 sq ft[90]
Unknown[91]

Florida
North Palm Beach
75,000 sq ft[92]
Unknown

Ohio
Boston Heights
100,000 sq ft[93]
Unknown

Ohio
West Chester
150,000 sq ft[94]
Unknown

New York
Uniondale
80,000-120,000 sq ft[95]
Unknown

New York
Victor
145,000 sq ft[96]
Unknown

New Jersey
Sayreville
200,000 sq ft[97]
Unknown

text: Islamorada Fish Company Restaurant[edit]

text: Many locations include an Islamorada Fish Company, a chain of restaurants owned by Bass Pro Shops.

text: Uncle Buck's Fishbowl and Grill[edit]

text: The new San Jose, CA, Bridgeport, CT, Tsawwassen, BC, Altoona, IA, East Peoria, IL, Harlingen, TX, Round Rock, TX, Bristol, TN, Memphis, TN, and Tacoma, WA Outdoor World locations feature a first for Bass Pro Shops: a 12-lane bowling alley. The project is in cooperation with Brunswick Bowling & Billiards. In addition to bowling, the facility offers a full-service restaurant and bar as well as world-class billiards in the Black Widow billiard room. The 15,000 sq ft (1,400 m2) underwater themed facility is connected to the Bass Pro Shops, but features a separate entrance to accommodate late night diners and bowlers.

text: NRA National Sporting Arms Museum[edit]

text: After nearly a decade of work by the NRA and Bass Pro Shops, the NRA National Sporting Arms Museum opened in the flagship store in Springfield, Missouri on August 2, 2013. It showcases almost 1,000 sporting artifacts from the 1600s to today, including some historically significant firearms from the NRA Museum Collection. The museum will host firearms and artwork from the Remington Arms Company factory collection, a multimillion-dollar collection of U.S. military sidearms, engraved Colt revolvers of the American frontier, the guns of Annie Oakley and firearms of U.S. Presidents like Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower.[98]

text: Affiliation with NASCAR[edit]

text: Bass Pro Shops and its owner, John Morris, have had a longtime interest in NASCAR racing. The company has sponsored such racers as Dale Earnhardt, Kerry Earnhardt, and Martin Truex Jr. Truex won the 2004 and 2005 Busch Series championships in the No. 8 Bass Pro Shops-sponsored Chevy, and drove the No. 1 Chevy for Earnhardt Ganassi Racing in the Sprint Cup series from 2005 to 2009. He got his first win at Dover International Speedway and finished 11th in the Chase for the Nextel Cup in 2007. While Truex, Jr. renewed with Bass Pro Shops as his main sponsor for three years in 2007. In 2009, he announced he would be leaving Earnhardt Ganassi Racing for Michael Waltrip Racing in 2010. Jamie McMurray, former driver of the Roush Fenway Racing Crown Royal Ford Fusion and who is from Joplin, MO (approx. 60 miles away from the national headquarters in Springfield), replaced Truex, Jr. for the 2010 season.

text: McMurray won the 2010 Daytona 500 in his first race driving in the Bass Pro Shops-sponsored Chevrolet. He followed that up by winning the 2010 Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis, making him the 3rd driver to win both races in the same season. He also won the 2010 Bank of America 500 at Lowe's Motor Speedway.

text: In the Xfinity Series, Bass Pro Shops was the main sponsor for the No. 3 car driven by Ty Dillon. Also in the Truck Series, Bass Pro Shops sponsors the No. 32 truck driven by Ryan Truex.[99]

text: Beginning with the 2013 season, Bass Pro Shops signed a multi-year agreement to be the primary sponsor for the No. 14 Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet SS driven by three-time Sprint Cup Champion Tony Stewart.

text: Bass Pro Shops reunited with Martin Truex Jr. in 2016 to be the primary sponsor of the No. 78 Furniture Row Sprint Cup car at the Daytona 500 and eight more races during the 2016 season.

text: Also in 2016, Bass Pro Shops became the primary sponsor of the August race at Bristol Motor Speedway, one of the most iconic events in NASCAR. The event is now known as the Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race.

text: In the Disney movie Herbie: Fully Loaded, Bass Pro Shops is one of two main sponsors of Ray Peyton Jr. Herbie also later receives a Bass Pro Shops sticker on his left rear fender.


document_title: So You Think You Can Dance (U.S. TV series)

question_text: who won so ypu think you can dance

question_tokens: who won so ypu think you can dance

text: Show format[edit]

text: A typical season of So You Think You Can Dance is divided between a selection process, during which expert judges select competitors from a wide pool of applicant dancers, and a competition phase, during which these 'finalists' (more typically referred to as the 'Top 20') compete for votes from home viewers. Though it is produced over the course of months, the selection phase is highly edited and usually constitutes only the first 2–4 weeks of aired episodes, with the competition episodes forming the remaining 8–9 weeks of the season.

text: Open auditions[edit]

text: The open auditions, the first stage in determining a seasons finalists, take place in 5–6 major U.S. cities each season and are typically open to anyone aged 18–30 at the time of their audition. The cities where auditions are held change from season to season but some, such as Los Angeles and New York, have featured in most seasons. During this stage, dancers perform a brief routine (typically a solo, but duet and group routines are allowed as well) before a panel of dance experts, usually headed by series creator and executive producer Nigel Lythgoe. This panel then decides on-the-spot whether the dancer demonstrated enough ability and performance value to proceed further. If the dancer exhibited exceptional ability in their performance, judges award "a ticket to Vegas" (or in more recent seasons "a ticket to the Academy"), moving them instantly one step forward in the competition. Alternatively, if judges are on the fence about the dancer, they may ask the contestant to wait until the end of that day's auditions to participate in a short test of their ability to pick up professional choreography.

text: Callbacks[edit]

text: The second stage of the selection process is referred to as "the callbacks" (the round has often been held in the city of Las Vegas and also been known as "Vegas Week" for much of the show's run, but has been called Academy Week since season 13). The callbacks consist of a several-day-long process in which the remaining hopefuls are tested for overall well-rounded dance ability, stamina, creativity and their ability to perform under pressure. The dancers are put through a battery of rounds that test their ability to pick up various dance styles; these are typically some of the more well-represented genres that are later prominent in the competition phase, such as hip-hop, jazz, ballroom, and contemporary. Additionally the dancers may be asked to perform further solos in styles of their choosing and participate in a group choreography round in which small teams of contestants must display their musicality and ability to communicate professionally by choreographing a performance to a randomly selected piece of music — this challenge is notable as being the only time competitors are asked to choreograph themselves, aside from solos. The Callbacks are often collectively portrayed as one of the most exhausting and stressful stages of the competition; each successive round sees cuts in which a significant portion of the remaining dancers are eliminated from competition and dancers are given a limited amount of time to adapt to styles they are sometimes wholly unfamiliar with while being physically taxed by the rapid progression of rounds and a limited amount of rest. At the end of this process, usually less than 40 competitors remain in a pool that final contestants are chosen from. Most seasons have featured 20 top finalists for the competition portion of the show, but Season One was represented by a Top 16, Season Seven saw a Top 11, and Season Thirteen employed a Top 10.

text: Finalist selection and showcase episode[edit]

text: Following Vegas Week—-which has, through video vignettes, made many of the dancers increasingly familiar to the audience as it observes their attempts to cope with the challenges of the week-—the judge's panel selects their finalists from the remaining dancers, breaking the good or bad news to each dancer. Since Season six, the series has also featured a showcase episode that takes place immediately before the main competition. In this episode, dancers compete for the first time on the main SYTYCD stage in Los Angeles before a live audience, dancing duet or group routines, but only in their own styles. In seasons eight through ten, the finalist announcement episode and the dancer's showcase were combined into one episode, with groups of dancers taking to the stage for the first time immediately after they are revealed. In seasons six through nine, no dancers were in danger of elimination at this point and the first round of viewer voting and judge eliminations occurred the following week. In the slightly more compact format of the more recent seasons, the dancer showcase is often the first episode to be accompanied by viewer voting and a resulting elimination.

text: Finalist Stage[edit]

text: Following the finalist selection process, the show transitions into its regular competition phase, which lasts the rest of the season. The competition stage is typically divided into 8 weeks, generally with two contestants eliminated per week. Dancers are paired-up into male-female couples that will sometimes stay paired for half of the remaining competition if neither is eliminated. These couples perform 1–2 duets per week in randomly selected styles. These duets, as with all non-solo performances at this stage in the competition, are choreographed by professional choreographers. Prior to most duet performances, a video packet of clips of the couple preparing to perform the routine is shown; these packets are intended not only to demonstrate the couple's efforts to master the routine, but also to give glimpses of the personalities of the dancers as well as to allow the choreographer to give insight as to the thematic, narrative, and artistic intentions of the piece. Following each duet performance, the week's panel of judges gives critical feedback, often emphasizing the two key areas of technique and performance value. Duets and their accompanying video packets and critiques typically take up the majority of a competition show but may also be supplemented by solos or group numbers. Each competition show ends with a quick recap of the night's routines accompanied by voting prompts--traditionally by phone, but increasingly through online voting processes. Performance shows typically last around two hours, commercials included.

text: In seasons 2-8 the show's weekly format was split between two episodes, a performance episode, as described above, and a results show which reveals the outcome of the at-home-viewer voting. Results shows typically aired on the night immediately following that of the performance show of the same week and usually opened with a group routine from the remaining contestants. The main purpose of this show was to determine which of the dancers are eliminated that week, but these episodes generally also featured guest dance performances or guest musical acts, and sometimes further video packets that provide insight on the dancers and their journey on the show. More recent seasons have moved to a one-show-per-week format, combining elements that used to be found in both varieties of show. Regardless of how many shows air per week, a "bottom three" couples (those that garnered the fewest votes from viewers--in some seasons it is a bottom three of individual dancers rather than couples) are typically revealed weekly at this stage in the competition. Each of these dancers are then in danger of elimination and must perform a solo for the judges as their last effort to impress and stay in the competition. The judges then retire briefly (typically during the night's headlining musical guest performance) to determine which man and woman (which are not necessarily from the same couple) will leave the competition. The eliminated dancers are then announced and given a brief send-off via a video montage. On very rare occasions, the judges have been unwilling to send any of the bottom dancers home on the merits of their performances that week and have abstained from making an elimination and instead allowed all competitors to proceed to the next week (often to be followed by a double elimination the following week). Since Season 7, dancers have also been routinely paired with "All Stars", returning dancers from previous seasons who partner with the contestant dancers, but are not themselves competing.

text: The total number of hours shown in a given week during the performance phase of the competition has varied from two to four hours. In season one there was no results show and the dancers' eliminations were pre-recorded the week they occurred and then broadcast at the beginning of the next week's episode. Seasons 9-14 have also utilized one show per week, but with votes from the previous week being revealed later in the show. Voting has varied by season (and often within seasons) with regard to whether the voter selected individuals or couples. There has also been variability in how long couples are kept together and how the at-home-viewer votes are balanced against judge decisions, though ultimately at some point in every season, the judges give up their power to save dancers at this point, and eliminations are determined exclusively by viewer votes, with judges serving in only an advisory capacity. Each season undergoes one final format shake-up in its last week, which typically takes place when the show reaches a Top 4. In the final performance show, the remaining dancers typically each dance duets with all of their remaining fellow finalists as well as perform solos and participate in group numbers. The following night's season finale episode is often the most elaborately produced show of a season and features the last performances of the competitors, encore performances of many of the season's most acclaimed routines, guest dancers (including returning past season competitors and cast-members from other international versions of the franchise), musical performances and multiple video packets chronicling the course of the season's events, all culminating in the announcement of the winner of the competition, as decided by the previous night's vote. Some seasons have featured a singular winner, while others have allowed for a male and female winner. Following the closure of the season, the Top Ten dancers often go on tour for several months, performing hit routines from the season amongst other performances.

text: Judges[edit]

text: The judging panel has also varied considerably in size and composition over the run of the series. Typically a season has 2–3 permanent judges with an additional 1–2 guest judges for most episodes, with the panel ballooning up to six to nine members for Vegas Week and the finale. Executive producer Nigel Lythgoe is the only permanent judge on the panel for all of the seasons. Other permanent judges have included ballroom specialist Mary Murphy, film director and choreographer Adam Shankman and contemporary choreographer Mia Michaels. Guest judge positions are typically filled by choreographers who work regularly on the show—though choreographers will never develop routines for an episode on which they judge—who in rare cases may also be former contestants themselves, and by iconic names from the entertainment industry. Guest judges for the show have included: Debbie Allen, Christina Applegate, Robin Antin, Toni Basil, Cicely Bradley, Kristin Chenoweth, Alex Da Silva, Ellen DeGeneres, Tyce Diorio, Joey Dowling, Napoleon and Tabitha D'umo, Carmen Electra, Brian Friedman, Jean-Marc Généreux, Jason Gilkison, Neil Patrick Harris, Hi-Hat, Katie Holmes, Dan Karaty, Lady Gaga, Carly Rae Jepsen, Lil' C, Rob Marshall, Mandy Moore, Megan Mullally, Kenny Ortega, Toni Redpath, Debbie Reynolds, Wade Robson, Doriana Sanchez, Shane Sparks, Sonya Tayeh, Olisa Thompson, Stacey Tookey, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Travis Wall. In earlier seasons, the judges decided on eliminations until around week five of the competitive phase of the show, but in seasons seven through nine the judges decided the eliminations until week seven. Beginning with the twelfth season, Paula Abdul and Jason Derulo joined Lythgoe as permanent judges.[2] For the thirteenth season, 13-year-old dancer Maddie Ziegler joined the panel as a fourth judge.[3] Season Fourteen has seen the departure of Abdul, Derulo, and Ziegler from their season-long positions of the judges panel, but introduction of Vanessa Hudgens and the return of Mary Murphy to her seat.

text: Overview of format and presentation by season[edit]

text:
Season
Dates
Host
Permanent judges
Separate results show?
Dancer showcase episode?†
Number of finalists in first live show
Number of contestants eliminated per week
Number of contestants remaining in finale
No. of winners
All-Stars included
in format?
Point at which judge eliminations end
Voting for individual dancers starting with

1
Summer 2005
(July–October)
Lauren Sánchez
Nigel Lythgoe
No
No
16
2
4
1
No
Top 8
Top 8

2
Summer 2006
(May–August)
Cat Deeley
Yes
No
20
2
4
1
No
Top 10
Top 10

3
Summer 2007
(May–August)
Nigel Lythgoe
Mary Murphy
Yes
No
20
2
4
1
No
Top 10
Top 10

4
Summer 2008
(May–August)
Yes
No
20
2
4
1
No
Top 10
Top 10

5
Summer 2009
(May–August)
Yes
No
20
2
4
1
No
Top 10
Top 10

6
Fall 2009
(September–December)
Nigel Lythgoe
Mary Murphy
Adam Shankman
Yes
Yes
20
2
6
1
No
Top 10
Top 10

7
Summer 2010
(May–August)
Nigel Lythgoe
Adam Shankman
Mia Michaels
Yes
Yes
11
1*
3
1
Yes
Top 4
Top 11

8
Summer 2011
(May–August)
Nigel Lythgoe
Mary Murphy
Yes
Yes‡
20
2*
4
1
Yes
Top 6
Top 10

9
Summer 2012
(May–September)
No
Yes‡
20
2*
4
2
Yes
Top 6
Top 20

10
Summer 2013
(May–September)
No
Yes‡
20
2
4
2
Yes
Top 6
Top 20

11
Summer 2014
(May–September)
No
Yes
20
2
4
1
Yes
Top 10
Top 20

12
Summer 2015
(June–September)
Nigel Lythgoe
Paula Abdul
Jason Derulo
No
Yes
20
2⁂
4
1
Yes
Top 14
Top 20

13°
Summer 2016
(May–September)
Nigel Lythgoe
Paula Abdul
Jason Derulo
Maddie Ziegler
No
Yes
10
1**
4
1
Yes
Top 8
Top 10

14
Summer 2017
(June–September)
Nigel Lythgoe
Mary Murphy
Vanessa Hudgens
No
No
10
1
4
1
Yes
Top 6
Top 10

text: † From its inception in season 6 and through season 10, the dancer showcase episode represented a non-competitive round with no viewer voting or subsequent eliminations, followed the next week by the first competitive round. In season 11 it was the first episode of the season upon which viewers voted.

text: ‡ For seasons 8-10, the dancer showcase episode was combined with the Top 20 reveal episode, with groups of the dancers performing immediately after being revealed as finalists.

text: * In both seasons 7 and 8, the judges decided not to eliminate any dancers on the occasion of one results show; in both cases this event was followed by the elimination of double the normal amount of contestants the following week. Similarly, for format reasons, season 9 featured two shows with double eliminations, with four dancers eliminated instead of two for each of these shows.

text: ⁂ Unlike all previous seasons, season 12 featured the elimination of one "street" dancer and one "stage" dancer each week, as opposed to one female and one male contestant (as in all previous seasons which eliminated two dancers per week).

text: °Season 13 (during which the show was subtitled 'The Next Generation') featured competitors between the ages of 9 (or as young as 8 at time of application) and 14.

text: **In season 13, the judges held the audition rounds, but the all-stars, rather than the judges, made the eliminations during Academy week to choose the top 10. After this, in episodes 7 and 8, from the two contestants with the lowest viewer votes, the judges made the elimination. In episode 9, the two contestants with the lowest viewer votes were both eliminated, and in episodes 10 and 11, the contestant with the lowest viewer votes was eliminated.

text: Dance styles and choreographers[edit]

text: Over the course of its eleven seasons, So You Think You Can Dance has featured dozens of distinct dance styles in its choreographed routines. Most of these styles fall into four categories that are regularly showcased and can be found in almost every performance episode: western contemporary/classical styles, ballroom styles, hip-hop/street styles, and Jazz and its related styles. Various other forms of dance that do not especially fall into these broad categories are seen as well, but not as regularly. The following styles have all been seen in a choreographed duet or group routine; styles featured only in auditions or solos are not listed.

text: Classical styles[edit]

text: Routines from the classically derived style of contemporary dance are the most common dances seen on the show, being seen in every performance episode of the series (and typically at least twice per episode). While contemporary, lyrical, and modern dance are typically considered three separate (if overlapping) styles, the practice on So You Think You Can Dance has been to refer to all routines in this area as "contemporary", except in the first season where the label "lyrical" was used for the same purpose. Ballet routines occur much more rarely, at a rate of one or two per season since their introduction in the fourth season.

text:
Genre
Styles

Western Classical styles

Contemporary, Lyrical, Modern, Ballet/Pas de Deux

Choreographers

Dee Caspary, Tessandra Chavez, Tyce Diorio, Joey Dowling, Justin Giles, Mandy Moore, Mia Michaels, Dwight Rhoden, Desmond Richardson, Garry Stewart, Sonya Tayeh, Stacey Tookey, Travis Wall, Tovaris Wilson, Keith Young, Lindsay Nelko

text: Street and club styles[edit]

text: Hip-hop routines are also present in every performance episode. While these routines frequently feature elements from many different subgenres of hip-hop (locking and popping, for example) and various "street" styles (such as breaking), they are typically all labelled under the umbrella term of hip-hop. An exception is the now frequently featured lyrical hip-hop, which is unique amongst all the styles on SYTYCD in that it is the only one that is held to have become a known distinct style at least in-part as a result of the show; the style is widely attributed to regular show choreographers Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo and the term itself to judge Adam Shankman. These two broad categories are occasionally supplemented by krump routines, which have been featured a few times a season since their introduction in season 2. Additionally the styles of breakdancing (in the sense of a full breaking routine as opposed to a hip-hop routine with a few breaking tricks), waacking, and stepping have all been featured in exactly one routine. In Season 12, there are more street style dances because of the season's new format where there are 10 street dancers which do only street styles.

text:
Genre
Styles

Street and Contemporary Club Styles

Hip-hop (umbrella term for all Popping, Locking, and New Style/Commercial Hip-Hop styles), Lyrical Hip-hop, Breaking/B-boying, Krump, Stepping, Waacking

Choreographers

Cicely Bradley, Luther Brown, Tessandra Chavez, Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo, Dan Karaty, Marty Kudelka, Lil' C, Chuck Maldonado, Todd Sams, Christopher Scott, Dave Scott, Shane Sparks, Jamal Sims, Olisa Thompson, Dana Wilson, Pharside and Phoenix, Luam.

text: Ballroom styles[edit]

text: Ballroom styles are also seen regularly in every performance episode; these dances may be traditional European-derived styles or Latin-American styles or a mix of the two.

text:
Genre
Styles

Standard or Smooth Ballroom styles

Foxtrot, Tango, Argentine Tango, Quickstep, Waltz (including Smooth Waltz, Slow Waltz, American Slow Waltz, and Viennese Waltz variants)

Latin/Rhythm Ballroom styles

Cha-Cha-Cha, Jive, American Jive, Mambo, Paso Doble, Rumba, Salsa, Street Salsa, Samba, African Samba

Choreographers

Mark Ballas, Leonardo Barrionuevo, Dmitry Chaplin, Valentin Chmerkovskiy, Alex Da Silva, Sasha Farber, Anya Garnis, Jean-Marc Généreux, Jason Gilkison, Hunter Johnson, Pasha Kovalev, Melanie LaPatin, Miriam Larici, Liz Lira, Michael Mead, Tony Meredith, Tomas Mielnicki, Ron Montez, France Mousseau, Mary Murphy, Jonathan Platero, Oksana Platero, Toni Redpath, Jonathan Roberts, Fabian Sanchez, Edward Simon, Emma Slater, Heather Smith, J.T. Thomas, Louis Van Amstel, Gustavo Vargas, Glenn Weiss

text: Jazz, Broadway, and musical theater styles[edit]

text: Jazz is featured in nearly all performance episodes. While these routines are typically labelled simply "Jazz", the genre is notable as being one of the most fusional featured on the show and various style combinations and sub-categories have been referenced. Descended from Jazz but treated as a separate genre on SYTYCD, "Broadway" is analogous to the label "Musical Theater" outside the U.S.

text:
Genre
Styles

Jazz Styles

Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, Modern Jazz, Lyrical Jazz, African Jazz, Jazz-Funk, Latin Jazz, Pop-Jazz/Pop

Broadway/Musical Theatre Styles

Broadway, Burlesque, Can-Can, Tap

Choreographers

Andy Blankenbuehler, Sean Cheesman, Tyce Diorio, Brian Friedman, Laurie Ann Gibson, Derick K. Grant, Charles Klapow, Ray Leeper, Spencer Liff, Mandy Moore, Anthony Morigerato, Amanda Robson, Wade Robson, Sonya Tayeh, Savion Glover

text: American social styles[edit]

text: These dance styles are featured less frequently than their ballroom relatives, but have been seen intermittently since the first season.

text:
Genre
Styles

American Social / Traditional Club Styles

Charleston, Country-Western Two-Step, Disco, Go-Go, Hustle, Lindy Hop, Rock n' Roll, Swing, West Coast Swing

Choreographers

Ronnie DeBenedetta, Carla Heiney, Brandi Tobais, Travis Payne, Doriana Sanchez, Benji Schwimmer, Kristen Sorci, Maria Torres, Nick Williams

text: Regional/traditional styles[edit]

text: In addition to the broad categories above, many more styles that are less common in the U.S. are sometimes featured. Most of these are seen only once, but the Bollywood style has been featured several times per season since the fourth season.

text:
Genre
Styles

Regional/Traditional Styles

Bollywood, African, Capoeira, Kalinka, Malevos, Tahitian, Tropak

Choreographers

Lilia Babenko, Leonardo Barrionuevo, Nakul Dev Mahajan, Miriam Larici, Tiana Liufau, Youri Nelzine.

text: Seasons[edit]

text: Grand Finalists[edit]

text:
Season
Winner
Runner-up
Third place
Fourth place
Fifth place
Sixth place

1
Nick Lazzarini
(Contemporary Jazz)
Melody Lacayanga
(Contemporary)
Jamile McGee
(Popping)
Ashlé Dawson
(Jazz)

2
Benji Schwimmer
(Swing/Latin)
Travis Wall
(Contemporary)
Donyelle Jones
(Jazz/Hip-Hop)
Heidi Groskreutz
(Ballroom)

3
Sabra Johnson
(Contemporary)
Danny Tidwell
(Contemporary)
Neil Haskell
(Contemporary)
Lacey Schwimmer
(Swing/Latin)

4
Joshua Allen
(Hip-Hop)
Stephen "Twitch" Boss
(Hip-Hop)
Katee Shean
(Contemporary)
Courtney Galiano
(Contemporary)

5
Jeanine Mason
(Contemporary)
Brandon Bryant
(Contemporary)
Evan Kasprzak
(Broadway)
Kayla Radomski
(Contemporary)

6
Russell Ferguson
(Krump)
Jakob Karr
(Contemporary)
Kathryn McCormick
(Contemporary)
Ellenore Scott
(Jazz)
Ashleigh Di Lello
(Ballroom)
Ryan Di Lello
(Ballroom)

7
Lauren Froderman
(Contemporary)
Kent Boyd
(Contemporary Jazz)
Robert Roldan
(Contemporary Jazz)

8
Melanie Moore
(Contemporary)
Sasha Mallory
(African Jazz)
Marko Germar
(Contemporary Jazz)
Tadd Gadduang
(Breakdance)

Female winner
Male winner
Female runner-up
Male runner-up

9
Eliana Girard
(Ballet)
Chehon Wespi-Tschopp
(Ballet)
Tiffany Maher
(Jazz)
Cyrus "Glitch" Spencer
(Popping/Animation)

10
Amy Yakima
(Jazz)
Du-Shaunt "Fik-Shun" Stegall
(Hip-Hop)
Jasmine Harper
(Contemporary)
Aaron Turner
(Tap)

Winner
Runner-up
Third place
Fourth place

11
Ricky Ubeda
(Contemporary)
Valerie Rockey
(Tap)
Jessica Richens
(Jazz)
Zack Everhart, Jr.
(Tap)

12
Gaby Diaz
(Tap)
Jaja Vaňková
(Animation/Krump)
Virgil Gadson
(Hip-Hop)
Hailee Payne
(Jazz)

13
Leon "Kida" Burns
(Hip-Hop)
J.T. Church
(Jazz)
Tate McRae
(Contemporary/Ballet)
Emma Hellenkamp
(Tap)

14
Lex Ishimoto
(Contemporary Hip-Hop)
Koine Iwasaki
(Contemporary)
Taylor Sieve
(Contemporary)
Kiki Nyemchek
(Latin Ballroom)

text: Season 1[edit]

text: Season 2[edit]

text: The second season premiered on May 12, 2006. The top 20 finalists were revealed on June 8, and the winner, Benjamin Schwimmer, was named "America's Favorite Dancer" on August 16, 2006 after 16 million votes were collected for the season finale. Travis Wall was the first runner-up, and Donyelle Jones was named second runner-up. There were several changes to the show's format in the second season. This season was the first to feature two episodes per week, splitting the bulk of the performances and the voting results segments between two nights. New styles of dance were also introduced, and the winning prize was increased from US$100,000 to $250,000 and also included a new car and a one-year contract to perform in a Céline Dion show then performing Las Vegas. The season was also the first followed by a live tour for the top ten dancers.

text: Season 3[edit]

text: Open auditions for season 3 began early October 2006, held in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Atlanta. Like the previous season, those that made the cuts moved on to Las Vegas. The taped auditions premiered on the Fox on May 24, 2007, and the subsequent shows were taped and broadcast live for a 12-week season. Cat Deeley returned as host, and Nigel Lythgoe returned as permanent judge. Joining Lythgoe permanently at the judging table was Mary Murphy; her promotion was reported by TV Guide on March 8, 2007. The prize for the winner remained at $250,000 cash. On the performance finale show (August 16, 2007), Sabra Johnson was named "America's Favorite Dancer," while Danny Tidwell (brother of season 2 runner-up Travis Wall) was runner-up.

text: Season 4[edit]

text: Auditions for Season 4 began in Texas on January 17 and took place in six locations through March 2008. The show kicked off its two-hour season premiere on May 22, 2008.[4] Cat Deeley returned as host and Nigel Lythgoe and Mary Murphy as permanent judges. This season saw the introduction of new dance styles, including Bollywood, and new choreographers, including hip-hop duo Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo. The prize for the winner was again $250,000 cash and the title of "America's Favorite Dancer" and additionally included an offer for a role in the dance film Step Up 3D. In the finale, viewers voted Joshua Allen as the overall winner, while Katee Shean was voted the top female dancer and was given a previously unannounced award of $50,000.[5]

text: Season 5[edit]

text: Auditions for Season 5 kicked off in New York City on November 13, 2008 and continued on to Miami, Los Angeles, Denver, Memphis, and Seattle. The premiere aired on May 21, 2009. Louis van Amstel joined the show's cast of choreographers and Shane Sparks returned to choreograph while on break from America's Best Dance Crew. The prize for the winner was once again $250,000 cash, the chance to be on the November 2009 issue cover of Dance Spirit Magazine, and the title of "America's Favorite Dancer." On August 6, 2009 (the finale), Jeanine Mason was given the title.

text: Season 6[edit]

text: After a low-rated special episode of Dance featuring Lythgoe presenting his and viewer's favorite dance routines from seasons 1–5, the sixth season of Dance, premiered on Wednesday, September 9, 2009.[6] Auditions were held in Boston, Atlanta, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Phoenix, and Salt Lake City.[7] Adam Shankman joined as the permanent judge for the first time this season. The winner was Russell Ferguson and the runner-up was Jakob Karr.

text: Season 7[edit]

text: Auditions began in Miami, Florida, on January 18, 2010, continuing through New York, Dallas, Nashville, and Chicago, ending in Los Angeles on March 26. The season premiered on May 27, 2010. This season introduced significant format changes to the show, with a Top 11 dancers instead of the traditional Top 20 and "All-Stars", contestants from previous seasons who returned to partner with the Top 11 for a portion of their routines. Lauren Froderman won this season with Kent Boyd as runner-up.

text: Season 8[edit]

text: Auditions started October 13, 2010 in Oakland, California and continued through November 15 in Brooklyn, New York. The premiere aired on May 26, 2011. This season began a new version of the "All-Star" format in which the All-Stars didn't come in until the top 10. The show returned to a top 20 with couples. This season also marks the first time that the public can cast votes online, in addition to calling in, with a limit of 50 votes per viewer. On August 11, 2011, Melanie Moore won season 8, and Sasha Mallory was named the runner-up. Together they received 79% of the 11.5 million votes.

text: Season 9[edit]

text: The ninth season premiered on May 24, 2012. Fox discontinued the results show.[8] The two winners selected on September 18, 2012 were Eliana Girard and Chehon Wespi-Tschopp.

text: Season 10[edit]

text: Season 10 premiered on May 14, 2013, in its new Tuesdays at 8 p.m. time slot.[9] The two-part premiere concluded on May 15, 2013 at 9 p.m., after the finale of American Idol season 12.[10] On September 10, 2013, Amy Yakima and Du-Shaunt 'Fik-Shun' Stegall were named the season 10 winners, becoming the first contestants to take the top two positions who had been a couple at the beginning of the live show competition. No music artists or special dance performers appeared on this season except for All-Stars who were former contestants.

text: Season 11[edit]

text: The eleventh season premiered on Wednesday, May 28, 2014. The season finale aired on Wednesday, September 3, 2014. Contemporary dancer Ricky Ubeda was the winner of the season with Tap dancer Valerie Rockey finishing as the runner-up.[11]

text: Season 12[edit]

text: The twelfth season of the show divided contestants into two equally sized teams, one representing "stage" dancers and the other "street" styles, with one contestant eliminated from each team weekly until the finale.[12] Auditions began on January 24, 2015 and took place in five major American cities.[13] Season 12 premiered on Monday, June 1. Tap dancer Gaby Diaz was the winner of the season, becoming the first tap dancer to win So You Think You Can Dance. Animation dancer Jaja Vankova finished as the runner-up.

text: Season 13[edit]

text: The thirteenth season of the series premiered on May 30, 2016, titled So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation. The season features young dancers between the ages of 8 and 13 (at their date of application). After auditions, during Dance Academy episodes, 10 All-Stars eliminated competitors until each selected one contestant to mentor and partner with in performances during the live episodes.[14] One or more finalists were eliminated each week beginning July 18, 2016.[15] 13-year-old dancer Maddie Ziegler observed the Academy episodes and joined the judging panel for the live shows (also observing and commenting on rehearsals), together with continuing judges Abdul, Derulo and Lythgoe, the three of whom conducted the auditions.[3][16] Leon "Kida" Burns won the top prize of $250,000. J. T. Church was the runner-up.[17]

text: Season 14[edit]

text: On January 30, 2017, Fox renewed the series for a fourteenth season, which returned to its former contestant age range of 18-30 but keeps the All-Star partnerships. The season premiered on June 12, 2017. Contemporary dancer Lex Ishimoto was the winner of the season with contemporary dance Koine Iwasaki finishing as the runner-up and female winner, becoming the first Asian-Americans to take the top two positions of So You Think You Can Dance.[18]

text: Special shows[edit]

text: On September 2, 2009, as prelude to season 6, a special show aired featuring judge picks for the top 15 routines from the first five seasons. At the end of the show, show creator and judge Nigel Lythgoe presented his favorite performance, a contemporary piece choreographed by Tyce Diorio and performed by Melissa Sandvig and Ade Obayomi.

text: In March 2014, Chinese television station CCTV broadcast a promotional episode in which notable all-star dancers from the U.S. and Chinese versions of So You Think You Can Dance competed directly against one-another as teams. Titled Zhōngměi Wǔ Lín Guànjūn Duìkàngsài - Super Dancer Born Tonight, the show was shot in Las Vegas but never aired on U.S. television.

text: Ratings[edit]

text: So You Think You Can Dance premiered with over 10 million viewers in 2005. For Season 1, it was the No. 1 summer show on television. However, when NBC's America's Got Talent premiered in the summer of 2006, it took the title of "#1 summer show" and, over the following few years, broadened its lead. In summer 2009, SYTYCD premiered strong with a 3.4 rating in its target demographic, although with the start of America's Got Talent roughly a month later in the same timeslot, Dance fell to No. 4 on the ratings board. It continued to lose viewers throughout the summer of 2009 and ended up with an average of approximately 8 million viewers. Fox then moved SYTYCD to its fall 2009 schedule where its ratings continued to decline; hitting an all-time series low of 4.6 million viewers for a "special" episode hosted by Nigel Lythgoe on September 2, 2009. The move to the fall was short-lived. After dropping to an average of 6 million viewers, Fox moved SYTYCD back to the summer in 2010. With Mia Michaels replacing Mary Murphy and former contestants termed as "All-Stars" being used as partners, the ratings for Dance continued to slide to all-time series lows; dropping to just 5.6 million viewers on July 15, 2010. For Season 7, So You Think You Can Dance averaged just over 5 million viewers. After season 7, Mia Michaels was replaced on the judge's panel by returning personality Mary Murphy. The change appeared to have little effect on the ratings, and the show continued to average just over five million viewers per episode in 2011's season 8. Season 9 saw a slight uptick in ratings early on, with each of the season's first five episodes garnering between six and seven million viewers, but the rise was short-lived and the show's ratings hit a new low of 4.16 million viewers on August 29, 2012. Season 10 maintained similar numbers, averaging about 4 million viewers per episode in 2013, with a 4.3 million viewership for the last episode of the season, an all-time series low for a finale.[19]

text: In April 2014, Nigel Lythgoe appealed on Twitter to fans to share information about the show ahead of the 11th season's May premiere in an attempt to augment the show's ratings for the upcoming season and bolster its chances of renewal thereafter.[19][20] The show was renewed for a 12th season, but ratings continued to decline, with an average of around 3.5 million viewers per show. FOX renewed the show for a 13th season, but with a drastically re-worked format focused on child dancers. Ratings declined further for the new version, with only five episodes breaking the 3 million viewer mark; the finale saw a series low viewership of just 2.27 million viewers.[citation needed]

text: In 2016, a New York Times study of the 50 TV shows with the most Facebook Likes found that "in general", Dance "is more popular in cities, though it hits peak popularity in Utah".[21]

text: Influence and international franchise[edit]

text: Dance competition had been a part of American television for decades before the premiere of So You Think You Can Dance, but usually in the form of all-around talent searches, (such as Star Search, Soul Train, or Showtime at the Apollo). However, a season-long American Idol-like talent-search show with a sole focus on dance had never been broadcast on American network television. Producers and judges associated with the show have stated on numerous occasions, both within the context of the show and in interviews, that the series was meant to rejuvenate the visibility and appreciation of dance as an art form in the U.S. and to give exposure to struggling dancers. Series judge Mary Murphy says, for example, "Of course you hope you can make a living at it, because you don't want to give up on something that you do, but the honest truth is most dancers have to carry one or two jobs and dance as much as they can on the side -- it's a very lucky dancer who gets a full scholarship."[22] A number of dance-themed competition shows have been produced for American television since the premiere of So You Think You Can Dance, including America's Best Dance Crew, Superstars of Dance, and Live to Dance.

text: In 2009, Lythgoe came together with fellow SYTYCD judge Adam Shankman as well as Katie Holmes, Carrie Ann Inaba, and others in the dance entertainment industry, in an effort to launch The Dizzyfeet Foundation, with the aim of providing scholarships and training to young dancers of limited means.[23] The foundation has been referenced sporadically on the show since. In 2010, Lythgoe, with the assistance of other SYTYCD personalities and long-time healthy lifestyles proponent Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, was successful in getting another of his dance-oriented concepts realized—an official National Dance Day, held now annually on the last Saturday of July, to promote fitness through movement.[24] This national dance day has been celebrated annually by the show since.[25]

text: Before the end of 2005, the year the series first premiered, its format had already been licensed for the first of a number foreign adaptations. To date, the resulting So You Think You Can Dance franchise has produced 26 shows representing 37 different countries and comprising more than 80 individual seasons. These adaptations have aired in Armenia, Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iraq, India, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Lithuania, Malaysia, Morocco, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Palestinian Territories, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, South Africa, Sudan, Sweden, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and Vietnam.

text: Awards and nominations[edit]

text: Emmy Awards[edit]

text:
[hide]Emmy Awards and nominations

Year
Result
Category
Recipient(s)/
Choreographer(s)
Style
Music

2007
Won[a]
Outstanding Choreography
Wade Robson
Pop-Jazz
"Ramalama (Bang Bang)"—Róisín Murphy

Mia Michaels
Contemporary
"Calling You"—Celine Dion

2008
Won
Outstanding Choreography
Wade Robson
Jazz
Hummingbird and Flower/"The Chairman's Waltz" from Memoirs of a Geisha

Nominated
Mandy Moore
Jazz
Table/"Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"—Eurythmics

Nominated
Shane Sparks
Hip-hop
Transformers/"Fuego"—Pitbull

Nominated
Outstanding Makeup For A Multi-Camera Series Or Special (Non-Prosthetic)

2009
Won
Outstanding Choreography
Tyce Diorio
Contemporary
Adam and Eve/"Silence" from Unfaithful

Nominated
Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo
Hip-hop
"Bleeding Love"—Leona Lewis

Nominated
Mia Michaels
Contemporary
"Mercy"—Duffy

Nominated
Dmitry Chaplin
Argentine tango
"A Los Amigos" from Forever Tango

Nominated
Outstanding Makeup For A Multi-Camera Series Or Special (Non-Prosthetic)

Won
Outstanding Costumes For A Variety/Music Program Or A Special
Soyon An

2010
Won
Outstanding Choreography
Mia Michaels
Contemporary
"Koop Island Blues"—Koop feat Ane Brun

Contemporary
Addiction/"Gravity"—Sara Bareilles

Contemporary
"One" from A Chorus Line

Nominated
Stacey Tookey
Contemporary
Fear/"Two Steps Away"—Patti LaBelle

Nominated
Outstanding Makeup For A Multi-Camera Series Or Special (Non-Prosthetic)

Won
Outstanding Costumes For A Variety/Music Program Or A Special
Soyon An
Graine O'Sullivan

2011
Won
Outstanding Choreography
Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo
Hip-Hop
"Scars"—Basement Jaxx ft. Kelis, Meleka, and Chipmunk

Lyrical Hip-Hop
"Fallin'"—Alicia Keys

Hip-Hop
"Outta Your Mind" (District 78 Mix)—Lil Jon and LMFAO

Won
Mia Michaels
Contemporary
Alice in Mia-Land/"Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic"—Sting

Contemporary
"When We Dance"—Sting

Contemporary
"This Bitter Earth/On the Nature of Twilight"—Max Richter and Dinah Washington

Nominated
Mandy Moore
Pop-Jazz
"Oh Yeah"—Yello

Jazz
"Boogie Shoes"—KC & the Sunshine Band

Contemporary
"I Surrender"—Celine Dion

Nominated
Stacey Tookey
Contemporary
"Mad World" (Alternate Version)—Michael Andrews ft. Gary Jules

Contemporary
"Sundrenched World" (Live Session)—Joshua Radin

Contemporary
"Heaven is a Place on Earth"—Katie Thompson

Nominated
Travis Wall
Contemporary
"Collide" (Acoustic Version)—Howie Day

Contemporary
"How It Ends"—DeVotchKa

Contemporary
"Fix You"—Coldplay

Nominated
Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program
Cat Deeley

Won
Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction for a Variety, Music, or Comedy Series
Robert Barnhart
Pete Radice
Patrick Boozer
Matt Firestone

Nominated
Outstanding Reality-Competition Program
Producers

2012
Nominated
Outstanding Choreography
Stacey Tookey
Contemporary
"In This Shirt"—The Irrepressibles

Contemporary
"Turning Tables"—Adele

Contemporary
"Heart Asks Pleasure First"—Ahn Trio

Nominated
Christopher Scott
Hip-hop
"Misty Blue"—Dorothy Moore

Hip-hop/Contemporary
"Velocity"—Nathan Lanier

Nominated
Spencer Liff
Broadway
"Whatever Lola Wants"—Ella Fitzgerald

Broadway
"Please Mr. Jailer"—Rachel Sweet

Broadway
"(Where Do I Begin) Love Story (Away Team Remix)"—Shirley Bassey

Nominated
Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program
Cat Deeley

Won
Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction for a Variety Series
Robert Barnhart
Matt Firestone
Pete Radice
Patrick Boozer

Nominated
Outstanding Reality-Competition Program
Producers

2013
Nominated
Outstanding Choreography
Sonya Tayeh
Contemporary
"Possibly Maybe"—Björk

Contemporary
"Turning Page"—Sleeping At Last

Jazz
"Sail"—Awolnation

Nominated
Mandy Moore
Contemporary
"The Power of Love"—Celine Dion

Contemporary
"Wild Horses"—Charlotte Martin

Nominated
Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo
Jazz/Hip-hop
"The Circle of Life/Nants Ingonyama (District 78 Remix) from The Lion King"—Ella Fitzgerald

Jazz[26]
"The Lovecats"—The Cure

Jazz
The Beautiful People (District 78 remix)"—Marilyn Manson

Nominated
Travis Wall
Contemporary
"Where the Light Gets In"—Sennen

Contemporary
"Without You"—Harry Nilsson

Contemporary
"Unchained Melody"—The Righteous Brothers

Nominated
Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program
Cat Deeley

Nominated
Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction for a Variety Series
Robert Barnhart
Matt Firestone
Pete Radice
Patrick Boozer

Nominated
Outstanding Reality-Competition Program
Producers

2014
Nominated
Outstanding Choreography
Christopher Scott
Hip-hop
"Trigger (Original Mix)"—Kezwik ft. Mel Presson

Jazz
"Sand"—Nathan Lanier ft. Karen Whipple

Contemporary
"The Gravel Road" from The Village (Score from the Motion Picture)

Nominated
Mandy Moore
Contemporary
"I Can't Make You Love Me"—Mark Masri

Jazz
"Feeling Good"—Jennifer Hudson

Contemporary
"Edge of Glory (Live from a Very Gaga Thanksgiving)"—Lady Gaga

Won
Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo
Hip-hop
"Gold Rush"—Clinton Sparks ft. 2 Chainz, Macklemore, & D.A.

Hip-Hop
"Run the World (Girls) (Nappytabs Remix)"—Beyoncé

Hip-Hop
"Puttin' On the Ritz"—Herb Alpert ft. Lani Hall

Nominated
Travis Wall
Contemporary
"Hangin' By a Thread"—Jann Arden

Contemporary
"Medicine"—Daughter

Contemporary
"Wicked Game (Live at Kilkenny Arts Festival, Ireland 2011)"—James Vincent McMorrow

Nominated
Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program
Cat Deeley

Nominated
Outstanding Makeup For A Multi-Camera Series Or Special (Non-Prosthetic)

Nominated
Outstanding Reality-Competition Program
Producers

2015
Won
Outstanding Choreography
Travis Wall
Contemporary
"Wave"—Beck

Contemporary
"When I Go"—Over the Rhine

Contemporary
"Wind Beneath My Wings"—RyanDan

Nominated
Sonya Tayeh
Contemporary
"Vow"—Meredith Monk

Contemporary
"So Broken (Live)"—Björk

Contemporary
"Europe, After The Rain" —Max Richter

Nominated
Spencer Liff
Broadway
"Hernando's Hideaway"—Ella Fitzgerald

Broadway
"I've Got the World on a String"—Frank Sinatra

Broadway
"Maybe This Time"—Liza Minnelli

Nominated
Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program
Cat Deeley

Nominated
Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction for a Variety Series
Robert Barnhart
Matt Firestone
Patrick Boozer
Pete Radice

Nominated
Outstanding Hairstyling for a Multi-Camera Series Or Special
Sallie Nicole
Sean Smith
Dean Banowetz
Ralph Abalos
Shawn Finch
Melissa Jaqua

Nominated
Outstanding Makeup for a Multi-Camera Series or Special
Heather Cummings
Marie DelPrete
Amy Harmon
Tyson Fountaine
Adam Christopher

Nominated
Outstanding Reality Competiton Program
Producers

2016
Nominated
Outstanding Choreography
Travis Wall
Contemporary
"Beautiful Friends"—Helen Money

Contemporary
"November"—Max Richter

Contemporary
"Gimme All Your Love"—Alabama Shakes

Nominated
Anthony Morigerato
Tap
"Dibidy Dop (Swing Mix)"—Club Des Belugas feat. Brenda Boykin

Nominated
Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction for a Variety Series
Robert Barnhart
Matt Firestone
Patrick Boozer
Pete Radice

2017
Won
Outstanding Choreography
Travis Wall
Contemporary
"The Mirror"—Alexandre Desplat

Contemporary
"Send in the Clowns"—Sarah Vaughan and the Count Basie Orchestra

Contemporary
"She Used to be Mine"—Sara Bareilles

Nominated
Mandy Moore
Contemporary
"Unsteady (Erich Lee Gravity Remix)"—X Ambassadors

Contemporary
"This is Not the End"—Clare Maguire

Nominated
Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction for a Variety Series
Robert Barnhart
Matt Firestone
Patrick Boozer
Pete Radice

As of 2017, nine former SYTYCD contestants have been nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography. Five were nominated for their work on Dancing with the Stars: Chelsie Hightower in 2010, Travis Wall and Nick Lazzarini in 2012 (with Teddy Forance), Alison Holker in 2013 (with Derek Hough), and Witney Carson in 2015. Hokuto “Hok” Konishi, Ryan “Ryanimay” Conferido, and Dominic “D-Trix” Sandoval were nominated in 2016 as part of the B-boy troupe Quest Crew for their work on America's Best Dance Crew. Dmitry Chaplin in 2009 and Travis Wall in 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017 were nominated for their work on SYTYCD, itself. The only former contestants to have won the Choreography Emmy are Konishi, Conferido, and Sandoval in 2016 and Wall in 2015 and 2017. [27]
^a : Wade Robson and Mia Michaels were joint-winners along with Rob Marshall and John Deluca from Tony Bennett: An American Classic.

text: Teen Choice Awards[edit]

text:
Year
Result
Category

2006
Won
Choice TV: Breakout Show

Choice Summer Series

2007
Nominated
Choice Summer TV Show

2008
Nominated
Choice Summer TV Show

Choice TV: Reality Dance

2010
Nominated
Choice Personality: Cat Deeley

Choice Summer TV Show